Chapter 10 - Emily Learns Why Vanessa Hated Her
Vanessa asked Emily for a private conversation with attorneys nearby.
Emily almost refused.
Then agreed.
Vanessa looked exhausted.
“I thought you knew who I was.”
“I did.”
“No. I mean before tonight.”
Emily said nothing.
Vanessa explained that months earlier she applied to join the hotel’s
luxury-events division.
Emily had been part of a staff feedback panel.
She wrote an anonymous comment about Vanessa’s treatment of employees
during a trial event.
The comment said:
Strong client instincts. Poor staff conduct. Uses humiliation when
frustrated.
Vanessa later obtained a copy through Ryan.
She recognized Emily’s wording from a conversation.
From then on, she hated her.
The fake-invoice problem gave Ryan a reason to weaponize that
resentment.
Vanessa had not targeted a random server.
She targeted someone she already wanted punished.
Emily asked:
“Do you understand that none of that excuses what you did?”
“Yes.”
Vanessa cried.
Emily did not comfort her.
She accepted the explanation without offering forgiveness.
Vanessa’s engagement to Ryan ended within days.
Not because Nathan demanded it.
Because Vanessa finally understood Ryan had fed her a lie to make her
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And because Ryan understood she had become a witness.
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